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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (21 children)

I don't understand. Are there places where using chatGPT for papers is illegal?

The state where I live explicitly allows it. Only plagiarism is prohibited. But making chatGPT formulate the result of your scientific work, or correct the grammar or improve the style, etc. doesn't bother anybody.

If you use chatGPT you should still read over it, because it can say something wrong about your results and run a plagiarism tool on it because it could unintentionally do that. So whats the big deal?

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (9 children)

It's not a big deal. People are just upset that kids have more tools/resources than they did. They would prefer kids wrote on paper with pencil and did not use calculators or any other tool that they would have available to them in the workforce.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Teachers when I was little "You won't always have a calculator with you" and here I am with a device more powerful than what sent astronauts to the moon in my pocket 24/7

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

1% battery intensifies

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Fun fact for you, many credit-card/debit-card chips alone are comparably powerful to the computers that sent us to the moon.

It's mentioned a bit in this short article about how EMV chips are made. This summary of compute power does come from a company that manufactures EMV chips, so there is bias present.

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